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Comment by nickthemagicman

Glad you said this. If the 'government' wanted to protect sex workers a better strategy is what numerous other countries have done. Legalize the sex trade with strong provisions to protect the workers and support systems for escaping that life if they so choose.

When a sex worker gets a record for being a sex worker it makes it a lot harder to escape that life.

Having safe houses and required STD testing are other supportive measure for sex workers.

The government does not care about the sex workers in the slightest.

This is about censorship and control in the name of 'safety'.

Gives them the power to take a website down in the name of safety if there's ANY questionable content on it even if there's millions of users. They will cudgel sites with it to give in to their demands for data requisition and to remove messages that they don't like...or suddenly the site will be brought down by force of law due to one person out of millions posting something questionable.

Just like what Duterte did in the Philippines with his bloody drug crusade that also happened to not so coincidentally kill a bunch of his political rivals.

Anytime the government tells you it's doing something for you in the name of 'safety' chances are you're about to get screwed.

The average ignorant human's fear of whatever nightmare scenario the government and the media has created playing out in their head, is what ruins the world.

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